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6 years ago ::
Oct 24, 2007 - 4:00AM
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It was enough of a spit in the eye that they never ported their 3.0/3.5 tools over to Macintosh -- I could handle that, since it was kinda crummy anyway (I always hated the look of WOTC's "official" character sheets).
But with D&D Insider being set up to be such a huge part of D&D, and not just a few tools to make a character sheet, this is effectively telling a portion of players they aren't wanted. "Mac users, we don't need you. Go play some other RPG."
So I guess WOTC expects me to buy a $1,000 dollar computer so I can play with their little virtual game table, make a character, and print out a sheet? Truth be told, I'd rather do it the old fashioned way, thank you, hang onto my money, and stick with a more stable platform. But the day Wizards learns how to treat its customers will be a cold day in hell, I suppose.
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6 years ago ::
Oct 24, 2007 - 4:57AM
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I feel your pain. Unfortunately, it's just not worth most companies making the effort to cater for smaller platforms when Windows has such a large slice of the market. The time and expense simply cannot be justified for the return. Fighting companies like WoTC on this front is futile.
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6 years ago ::
Oct 24, 2007 - 6:01AM
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Date Joined:
Mar 31, 2004
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I was wondering...
I'm about to buy a Mac. Wouldn't everything D&D insider has to offer (including the game table) work on an intel Mac with dual boot?
When you install windows on your Mac using boot camp doesn't it install DirectX?
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6 years ago ::
Oct 24, 2007 - 6:26AM
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Date Joined:
Aug 20, 2007
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The decision not to support a mac means that my entire group and I will be forced to continue using RPG tools after the release of dndinsider.
As a result, that's about 10 of us that will have no reason to purchase a subscription.
Why? Are we all mac afficiandos intent on spreading the mac mantra?
Nope.. I hate macs generally - but one of my players is a mac-o-phile. If he can't play on his mac, then I can't use the game table to play with my group. The pitch for D&D insider was that the online game table would help bring groups back together - if you want to succesfully do that, you need to support linux and mac. Yes, each has a much smaller share of the installed based - but it only takes 1 mac user out of 8 to render your tool useless to all of them.
-A
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6 years ago ::
Oct 24, 2007 - 6:47AM
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I was wondering...
I'm about to buy a Mac. Wouldn't everything D&D insider has to offer (including the game table) work on an intel Mac with dual boot?
When you install windows on your Mac using boot camp doesn't it install DirectX?
If you have duel boot, when you install Windows on your Mac it will include DirectX or should (It would depend mostly on what version of Windows package you install). The biggest complaint from Mac users are those that either can not dual boot Windows and those that do not want to purchase Windows even if they can dual boot.
Plans are always subject to change.
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6 years ago ::
Oct 24, 2007 - 10:01AM
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Date Joined:
Apr 20, 2007
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Well, WOTC has lost my and my players' business over this decision.
Way to go.
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6 years ago ::
Oct 24, 2007 - 10:23AM
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Date Joined:
Mar 31, 2004
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If you have duel boot, when you install Windows on your Mac it will include DirectX or should (It would depend mostly on what version of Windows package you install). The biggest complaint from Mac users are those that either can not dual boot Windows and those that do not want to purchase Windows even if they can dual boot.
Thanks for the clarification
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6 years ago ::
Oct 24, 2007 - 10:28AM
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Well, WOTC has lost my and my players' business over this decision.
Way to go.
I have not been happy with many proposed changes, to rule set, digital mags and so on, however that does not mean you have to cut WotC off.
DDI is a feature that no one needs to purchase. A cross platform Game Table would indeed have a larger customer base, but we can still play D&D as it started in the 20th century. Just purchase PHB (for players) and the DM also has to purchase (DMG and MM). Splat books optional even if they say PHB II will be core rules.
Also as many online gamers have indicated there already are other online gaming applications. Clearly 4th could be played on those systems. The only thing that you should be saying is that you will not purchase/rent DDI because of its little to no value to you.
Plans are always subject to change.
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6 years ago ::
Oct 25, 2007 - 3:21PM
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Date Joined:
Jul 22, 2005
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The thing that's frustrating to me about this decision is that it's completely unnecessary to cut OS X (or Linux ) out of their tool set. OpenGL is cross platform and does the simple 3D things that I understand the digital tools do. So if they didn't marry their system to DirectX it would work for you whether you use Windows, Mac, or Linux.
Because they are tying it to DirectX, it will never run on OS X or Linux.
It's like requiring Windows to view a web site.
(which I mention because my Mac won't resolve the forums on Gleemax today, but my PeeCee does just fine, which is weird.)
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6 years ago ::
Oct 25, 2007 - 7:36PM
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It's like requiring Windows to view a web site.
(which I mention because my Mac won't resolve the forums on Gleemax today, but my PeeCee does just fine, which is weird.)
From what I see, WotC's IT programs for IE and Windows 2000+, there again I could be in error. Not sure what else to say about it. There clearly could be a local problem as well. I do know Gleemax and WotC websites are not W3C complaint last time I submitted their URLs to the W3C validater.
Plans are always subject to change.
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